Irish deputy prime minister Leo Varadkar criticised for attending Mighty Hoopla festival

Thousands of music lovers frantically tried to get tickets for Ed Sheeran’s 2022 tour on Saturday morning, with many sitting in the virtual queue for hours.

Irish fans of Dawson’s Creek star Joshua Jackson are sure to be delighted at the news he’s ‘seriously considering’ a move to Ireland after opening up about his ‘sweet’ childhood memories spent on The Emerald Isle.

We watched Toby Aromolaran grow over the course of eight weeks, from a young, naive lad to the runner up of Love Island 2021.

As their husbands take to the Whistling Straits golf course to compete in the Ryder Cup this weekend, the wives of Team Europe’s Irish golfing pros have jetted off to join their other halves in the States.

Ed Sheeran retains the Number 1 spot on this week’s Official Irish Singles Chart with Shivers.

Lil Nas X’s debut album Montero flies straight in at Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart.

Coldplay have been one of the biggest bands in the world for the past two decades, continuing to entertain at the highest level to this day.

Kings Of Leon have added a series of Irish dates to their 2022 world tour plans, which run from this month until next summer.The band are touring behind their most recent album, ‘When You See Yourself’, which came out back in March.After announcing UK arena dates for 2022 earlier this week, the band have now added two Irish shows in the middle of the run.The band will play Dublin’s 3Arena on June 24, before heading to Belfast for a show at the SSE Arena two days later.

Country music star Garth Brooks has for the first time addressed his desire to come back to Ireland since rumours of his return hit the country earlier this month.

colleague and racially abused him by calling him “Gerry Adams”, a court martial heard. Scots trooper Declan Coutts and colleague Maxwell Nicholls allegedly harassed fellow soldier Tpr Scott Alexander, with slurs about the IRA and “car bombs” and comparing him with ex-Sinn Fein president Adams.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson revealed for the first time the number of children he actually has.

Bold colours, eye-catching florals and edgy designs… and then there are the flowers and fauna.

David Flynn, who is best known for his co-ownership of The Happy Pear brand and restaurants, has tied the knot in a lavish private ceremony.

Top Irish stylist-to-the-stars Andrew Fitzsimons was clearly in no mood to let anyone – even Conor McGregor – tangle with the tresses of his celebrity clients.

Families from different places can often end up with a very interesting mix of dialect and this seems to be the case for Vogue Williams and her husband Spencer, as the London-born hunk is picking up on her Irish accent.

Ed Sheeran has replaced himself at Number 1 as Shivers overthrows Bad Habits to become the British megastar’s eighth chart topper on the Official Irish Singles Chart.

Congratulations to Mick Flannery and Susan O’Neill, who claim the highest new entry on the Official Irish Albums Chart this week with In The Game.

Lyra McKee. The Belfast reporter was tragically shot dead in April 2019 as she watched rioting in Derry.It was thought that dissident republicans were responsible for her death.The Mirror reports that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has now confirmed that two men have been charged with her murder.

Fresh from the Ploughing Championships, Jamie Redknapp had another important meeting to keep on his Irish trip, one with an old pal – fellow football legend Robbie Keane!

It’s probably no great surprise that someone whose surname is a species of bird was, some day, going to wind up in a bar with an avian-themed name.